THE RIOT AT ADDISON'S FLAT.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3351, 13 April 1868, Page 4

THE RIOT AT ADDISONS FLAT.

Tee processionists in the loyal demonstration which took place at Addisons Flat, on the 2nd April, when returniDg home to the Flat, were assaulted by a mob of Fenians, who, -with. stoneß and projectiles, inflicted severe wounds on several of the party. The intelligence was brought by a man named Mason, who arrived in Westport from the Flat, with a severe wound in the head. The Westport Times of April 4 aays that the women who were at the head of the procession were dragged from their horses, and a scene of great confusion and excitement ensued, the loyalists taking refuge in flight, with unmistakable Bigns on their clothes and persons of the danger they had fortunately escaped. The report first received was exaggerated, and no person was either dangerously wounded or killed. The Baid attack was evidently premeditated, as the processionists were allowed to get well into the town # before any onslaught was made and no provocation was giveD. No firearms are said to have been used on the occasion, but the Fenian party were armed with stones, Btaves, and picks.